Animal facing left 

Apollo 11 cave, Nambia

23,000 BCE  paleolithic

Ashurbanipal hunting lions

Nineveh, Iraq

645-640 BCE

Assyrian 

Assyrian archers persuing enemies 

Kalhu, Iraq

875-860 BCE

Assyrian 

Aurochs horses and rhinoceroses wall

(Chauvet cave) Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France

30,000-28,000 or 15,000-13,000 BCE

Paleolithic

Banquet scene, cylinder seal

Ur, Iraq

2600 BCE

Sumerian 

Bison

Cave in Altamira, Spain

12,000- 11,000

Paleolithic

Bison with turned head

La Madeleine, France

12,000 BCE

Paleolithic

Bull-headed Lyre

Ur, Iraq

2600 BCE

Sumerian 

Deer hunt

Level III, Catal Hoyuk, Turkey

5750 BCE

Neolithic

Female head (Inanna?)

Uruk, Iraq

3200-3000 BCE

Sumarian 

Fragment of the victory stele eannatum

Girsu, Iraq

2600-2500 BCE

Sumerian

Gallery leading to the main chamber of the passage grave

Newgrange, Ireleand

3,200-2,500 bce

Neolithic

Great stone tower built into the settlement wall

Jericho

8,000-7,000

Neolithic

Hall of the bulls

Cave at Lascaux, France

15,000- 13,000 BCE

Paleolithic 

Head of an Akkadian ruler

Nineveh, Iraq

2250-2200 BCE

Akkadian 

Human figure

Ain Ghazal, Jordan

6750-6250BCE 

Neolithic 

Human with feline head

Hohlenstein-stadel, Germany

30,000 - 28,000 BCE  paleolithic 

Ishtar gate 

Babylon, Iraq

575 BCE 

Neo-Babylonian/ Persian 

Lamassu(winged human-headed bull)

Dur Sharrukin, Iraq

720-705 BCE

Assyrian 

Lanscape with volcanic eruption

Level III Catal Hoyuk

6,150 BCE 

Neolithic 

Lion Gate 

Hattusa, Turkey

1400 BCE

Neo-Sumerian/ Babylonian

Nude woman (Venus of Willendorf)

Willendorf, Austria

28,000- 25,000 BCE

Paleolithic

Palace of shapur I

Ctesiphon, Iraq

250CE

Neo-Babylonian/ Persian 

Peace side of the standard of Ur 

Ur, Iraq

2600 BCE

Sumerian

Persepolis(apadana in the background)

Iran 

521- 465 BCE

Neo-Babylonian/Persian

Presentation of offerings to Inanna

Uruk, Israel 

3200-3000 BCE

Sumerian

Processional frieze

Persepolis, Iran

521-465 BCE

Neo-Babylonian/Persian 

Reconstruction drawing of the white temple and ziggurat

Uruk, Iraq

3,200-3,000 BCE 

Reconstruction of the citadel of sargo II

Dur Sharrukin, Iraq

720-705 BCE

Assyrian  

Rhinoceros, wounded man and disemboweled bison

Lascaux, France

15,000-13,000 BCE  Paleolithic

Seated statue of Gudea holding temple plan

Girsu, Iraq

2100 BCE

Sound Box

Ur, Iraq

2600 BCE

Sumerian 

Spotted horses and negative hand imprints

Cave at Pech-Merle, France

22,000BCE  paleolithic

Statue of queen napir-asu

Susa, Iran

1350-1300 BCE

Neo-Sumerian/ Babylonian 

Statuettes of two worshipers

Square Temple at Eshnunna, Iraq

2700 BCE 

Sumerian

Stele with law code of hummurabi from susa

Iran

1780 BCE 

Neo-Sumerian/ Babylonian

Triumph of Shapur I over Valerian 

Bishapur, Iran

260 CE

Neo-Babylonian/Persian 

Two bison (reliefs)

Cave in Le Tuc d' Audobert, France

15,000- 10,000 BCE

Paleolithic

Victoy stele of naram-sin

Susa, Iran

2254-2218 BCE

Akkadian 

Votive disk of Enheduanna

Ur, Iraq

2300-2275 BCE

Akkadian 

War side of the standard of Ur

Ur, Iraq

2600 BCE

Sumerian 

Waterworn pebble resembling a human face

Makapansgat, South Africa

3,000,000 BCE paleolithic

White temple and Ziggurat

Uruk, Iraq

3,200-3,000 BCE

Sumerian

Woman holding a bison horn

Laussel, France

25,000- 20,000  paleolithic

Ziggurat (north stairs restored)

Ur, Iraq

2100 BCE

Akkadian